# Michael Andersen — michaelandersen.net

> Web developer, author and founder of Sustainable WWW Sweden AB. A leading voice in sustainable web design in Scandinavia.

## About

Michael Andersen is a web developer, author and founder based in Odense, Denmark. He has spent about ten years working in tech, most of them at Initiva AB in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he worked as a frontend developer building custom .NET/C# websites, CMS components and React web applications. He founded Sustainable WWW, a company in Sweden that helps businesses across Scandinavia build sustainable websites. He writes about technology, sustainability and the craft of development on his Substack newsletter.

## Contact

- Email: michael@sustainablewww.org
- Phone: +46317903740
- Website: https://michaelandersen.net
- Company: https://sustainablewww.org (Sustainable WWW Sweden AB)

## Social

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-orregaard-andersen/
- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@michael_swww
- X: https://x.com/moandersen93
- Substack: https://michaelandersentech.substack.com/

## Areas of Expertise

- Sustainable web design and development
- WCAG 2.1 accessibility
- Web performance and optimization
- Frontend development (React, Svelte, Angular, .NET/C#, Node.js)

## Books

### Sustainable Web Design In 20 Lessons (2023)
The practical guide for creating and maintaining sustainable websites. It teaches the basics and gives you valuable tools you can use to make your website more sustainable. Over 300 pages of hands-on experience.

Available on Amazon and Gumroad.
Rating: 4.8/5 from 8 reviews.

Chapters:
1. Sustainable Web Design fundamentals
2. Understand carbon footprints
3. Green web hosting
4. Content delivery networks
5. Page-weight budgets
6. Death of content
7. Accessibility
8. Minimalistic & lightweight design
9. Dark/light mode & colors
10. Image optimization
11. Video optimization
12. Font optimization
13. HTML optimization
14. CSS optimization
15. JavaScript optimization
16. React & Svelte optimization
17. Trackers & HTTP requests
18. Service workers & Caching
19. APIs
20. Emails and newsletters

### The Slow Developer (2026)
A practitioner's case for slowing down, thinking deeply, and building software that stands the test of time. Across twelve chapters, Michael explores what happens when we don't take time to think, and what it looks like when you do things differently.

Chapters:
1. An Industry on Speed
2. Framework Fever
3. When Speed Kills the Craft
4. Slowness as Strength
5. Simplicity as a Design Principle
6. Sustainability in Digital Craft
7. Architecture That Lasts
8. Code Less, Build More
9. Slow Pace, High Quality
10. Teams, Culture and Long-Term Quality
11. A Digital Life with Meaning
12. The Future of Digital Craft

## Podcast Appearances

- Green IO Podcast: Sustainable web development practices
- EcoSend Podcast: Building a sustainable world web

## Pages

- /da — Forside (Danish, default)
- /en — Homepage (English)
- /da/om — Om Michael (Danish)
- /en/about — About Michael (English)
- /da/boeger — Boeger (Danish)
- /en/books — Books (English)
- /da/boeger/sustainable-web-design-in-20-lessons — Bogdetaljer (Danish)
- /en/books/sustainable-web-design-in-20-lessons — Book details (English)
- /da/boeger/the-slow-developer — Bogdetaljer (Danish)
- /en/books/the-slow-developer — Book details (English)
- /da/blog — Blog (Danish)
- /en/blog — Blog (English)
- /da/kontakt — Kontakt (Danish)
- /en/contact — Contact (English)
- /da/cookiepolitik — Cookiepolitik (Danish)
- /en/cookie-policy — Cookie Policy (English)

## Languages

The website is available in Danish (default) and English.